Til the weekend, I may not have enough time to respond to the good comments on the Red Penguin series distinguishing the thoughts of Marx from the 20th century implementers of Marxism.
\nBut wanted to add a few thoughts about the motivation behind the series. I first wrote Love and Money and Red Penguin as reflections on Benkler — and added the narrative link to Marxism because it was the Hunter article that led me down that path.
\nPeer production — open source software, wikipedia, weblogs and the rest — is a new way of organizing creation and people.
\nWhat’s most interesting is understanding how this wonderful thing works — what are the principles, properties, processes and passions that make the whole thing go, and that make particular things thrive.
\nSo, the interesting avenues to follow, after the classics by Raymond and Benkler and the FSF crew, are the practitioners and observers who are doing it and figuring it out. Good references welcome.
\nAnalogies to existing frameworks like Marxism are interesting inasmuch as they shed light on this new thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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